Plug-ins and Sounds

MainStage gives you a massive collection of plug-ins and sounds to fuel your creativity. The Sound Library, augmented by Alchemy, is also a powerful source of inspiration thanks to Patches that allow for rich layers of instruments and effects — and Smart Controls that let you easily shape any sound.

Keyboard

Alchemy

Alchemy, the ultimate sample-manipulation synthesizer, is the most powerful instrument in Logic Pro X. It comes with an enormous library of over 3000 sounds and a keyword browser to quickly zero in on what you’re looking for. Powerful Performance Controls invite you to explore and play with the sounds you choose. Alchemy is a monster of a synth with multiple sound-generating engines, including additive, spectral, formant, granular, and virtual analog. It’s also a robust sampler that can import EXS24 instruments. Groundbreaking morphing and resynthesis features let you manipulate and combine samples in extraordinary new ways. And the vast number of filters, modulation routes, arpeggiation options, and effects makes for limitless possibilities.

EXS24 Sampler

With robust synthesis options, support for sampled instruments of almost any size, and 16 outputs for flexible mixing and sound processing, the EXS24 Sampler makes it easy to bring sample-based sounds to your production.

Vintage Keyboards

Play jaw-dropping models of the Hammond B3 organ, the Hohner Clavinet D6, and the Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, and Hohner electric pianos — with all the character and quirks of the originals. Thanks to an intuitive interface design, your most important controls are always front and center, while the full depth and flexibility of the real-time models are just a click away.

Sculpture

Sculpture is a unique physical modeling instrument that produces tones no other synthesizer can. By re-creating the sound of vibrating materials like wood, glass, nylon, or metal, it generates uncommon and creative variations of strings, bells, chimes, and other instruments. You can change the virtual body of the instrument to everything from guitar to cello, flute, and more. Control how the instrument is plucked, bowed, or otherwise played. And use the X/Y pad to morph between materials. A deep set of modulation parameters produce movement and evolving textures. When you’re looking for a completely unexpected sound, Sculpture gives you incredible sound design options.

Retro Synth

A powerful set of vintage synths — all with intuitive controls — make it easy to re-create your favorite electronic sounds from the ’70s and ’80s. Go for analog tones like earthshaking bass, textures, screaming leads, sweeping pads, and sawtooth waves. Or use unique digital sounds like bells, plucky bass, and brash leads.

ES2

A versatile synthesizer that delivers sounds ranging from classic analog to modern digital. The synthesis engine features three analog-modeled and wavetable oscillators, as well as dual multimode analog resonant filters and extensive modulation options.

Arpeggiator and MIDI Plug-ins

The Arpeggiator transforms simple chords into elaborate performances. Go with professionally designed presets, or shape the evolving performance by adjusting the rate, note order, and octave range of the notes. And add swing to help the Arpeggiator groove with the feel of your song. Additional MIDI plug-ins give you even more ways to generate and shape MIDI notes and controller data. Scale velocity, generate a rapid-fire series of notes, transpose incoming notes or conform them to a scale, and more.

Drums

Drum Kit Designer

Open Drum Kit Designer and select a kit. You can swap pieces to build a custom kit, choosing from a diverse variety of snares, kicks, toms, hi-hats, and cymbals. Finesse the sound of each drum by adjusting the tuning, dampening, and gain. And enable stereo or mono room and overhead mics. Each kit comes with its own unique mix designed by an industry hit maker. Choose a more elaborate Producer Kit and it loads with a Patch that gives you access to the full multichannel mix, along with all the processing and routing the producer used. Once you see how the pros get their signature sounds, you can go with their techniques — or tweak away.

Guitar Gear

Amp Designer

Re-create legendary sounds and craft your own unique tones by mixing and matching 25 amp heads, five EQs, 10 reverbs, 25 speaker cabinets, and seven mics that you can position freely around the speaker cone. Play through tweed amps from the ’50s and early ’60s. Classic American silverface and blackface combos. A full range of British stacks and combos. Ultra-high-gain metal stacks. And even rare amps that would be hard to find in the real world.

Bass Amp Designer

Lay down an amazing bass track with dead-on models of three vintage and modern bass amps and cabinets. To get the perfect tone, switch between two types of input channels. Swap out cabinets and amps. Position one of three mics on different speaker cones. Or blend between amp and DI box signals, just like in the studio. You can also use graphic or parametric EQs to fit the bass in your mix. And easily level performance dynamics or sustain with a compressor before or after the EQ.

Pedalboard

Get creative with over 35 stompboxes — all meticulously crafted to reproduce the tones and responsiveness of the originals they’re modeled after. Experiment with classic delays, echoes, and reverbs. Run your signal through some of the most coveted overdrives and distortions. Try out dynamic pitch transposition or dive-bomb effects. Choose from all your favorite choruses, flangers, tremolos, and other must-have modulation boxes. Or turn up the funk with vintage and modern wahs or an octaver. The Pedalboard interface makes it easy to reorder and swap your pedals and to creatively route your signal for thousands of combinations and virtually unlimited sounds.

Effects

Channel EQ

Versatile, scalable multiband EQ provides eight bands including highpass, lowpass, low and high shelving filters, and four flexible parametric filters. The frequency analyzer provides a graphical look at your sound so you can quickly zero in on refining your performances. Mid-Side mode splits the audio into mono (center) or stereo (hard left/right), providing more flexibility in how you shape your mix and widen the soundstage.

Redesigned Compressor

The powerful Compressor features a fully scalable, redesigned interface inspired by the look and feel of legendary studio favorites. With the new Classic VCA, there are a total of seven models. And the Histogram Meter view lets you instantly see the results of your parameters, controls, and knob movements like never before.

Production Effects

Make your songs and other audio productions sound their absolute best with a complete collection of dynamics, EQs, and other production effects. Pristine parametric and phase linear EQs make it easy to fine-tune your audio production. Match EQ lets you duplicate the sound from a favorite track and apply it to another. Use modern or vintage-modeled compression to smooth out a vocal performance. Or use limiters and multiband compression to create a mix that will jump out of your speakers.

Creative Effects

Shift, shape, or completely warp the sound of any track using a wide variety of creative effects. Add texture using realistic reverbs that simulate hundreds of acoustic spaces. Build creative, complex delays or emulations of vintage tape echoes. Introduce harmonic saturation and sparkle with vintage tube modeling. Dial in fuzz and warmth with overdrive. Or capture that retro 8-bit arcade style with bit crushing. Use effects like phaser, chorus, flanger, and ring modulator to add subtle shimmer or glassy overtones. Create warm, pulsating sweeps or icy, morphing shifts using a variety of vintage and modern filter effects. You’ll never run out of ways to mutate and twist your sounds.

Sound Library

Patches

The Sound Library gives you over 2700 inspiring production-ready instrument and effect settings. Instantly recall sophisticated multichannel sound and effect configurations. Logic Pro X Patches are put together by some of the world’s top sound designers using the abundant collection of Logic Pro X plug-ins and powerful features like Track Stacks and Smart Controls. Choose among instrument Patches for almost every genre and playing style. Here is a small preview section.

Vintage Synths

If you love the sound of classic analog and digital synths, you’ll find plenty in the library to inspire you. Created with Retro Synth, ES2, Alchemy, and other Logic plug-ins, a deep selection of Patches brings that vintage vibe.

Modern Synths

The library is filled with modern synth sounds created with powerful instrument plug-ins like Alchemy and Sculpture. Electronic musicians, enjoy your choice of pulse-pounding bass, stabbing synth leads, and pumping pads.

Vintage Keys

The Vintage Keyboard plug-ins provide the foundation for tons of Patches that recall the classic sounds of Rock, Pop, Gospel, and R&B. If you need a funky clav, a growling B3, or a chiming Whirly, you’ll find them — and many more — all here.

Acoustic Instruments

The library offers a wide selection of pristine, dynamic-sampled acoustic Patches, including pop and classical pianos, fretted instruments, world instruments, and sounds from every section of the orchestra.

Cinematic

Add texture and color to your tracks with a wealth of ever-evolving and richly layered Patches. The Logic Pro X Sound Library is perfectly suited for creating a soundtrack that evokes just the right environment or emotion.